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Revolutionizing Diagnosis in Occupational Safety and Health Demands: From OSH Issues to Workers' Empowerment

Explore the complexities of diagnosing and addressing Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) demands through a multidimensional lens, focusing on the interplay between social, political, and professional stakeholders. Discover the importance of listening, understanding, and empowering workers to advocate for fair treatment and safety. Learn about ways to manage OSH demands effectively, prevent workplace hazards, and ensure just compensation. Gain insights into training physicians to prioritize OSH demands, navigate cultural biases, and collaborate with activist groups for sustainable solutions.

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Revolutionizing Diagnosis in Occupational Safety and Health Demands: From OSH Issues to Workers' Empowerment

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  1. Why we cannot diagnose? Domyung Paek Seoul, Korea

  2. Personal Background and Context • Academic • Professional • Political • Personal - middle class

  3. Why and Who vs What and How • Why to diagnose? Why not to diagnose? • What is the ultimate goal of diagnosis for various stakeholders? • Who are behind the diagnosis? • Who is the dominating stakeholder of the system? • What to diagnose and How to diagnose?

  4. Not Diagnosis but StudyField work together with clinical workEpidemiology with Social MagnetsYou should have Solutions before Diagnosis How & What to diagnose?

  5. Not Diagnosis but Study • Temporal and Spatial Association

  6. Field work together with clinical work • Listening and understanding • Samsung denies any possibility of exposure, but there are plenty when we listen to workers

  7. Epidemiology with Social Magnets • Snowball sampling • Case-control approaches • Work mate, family members, neighborhoods

  8. Solutions • Political empowerment • Institutionalization • Overcoming cultural bias • Secondary gain, • Moral hazard

  9. OSH DemandsWays to generate OSH DemandsMeasurement and ManagementPrevention vs CompensationLessons for Training Why & Who to diagnose?

  10. OSH Demands • As a way to raise issues of salary raise, employment stability, outsourcing practice, etc. • As a way to raise issues of comfortableness of work and partly health and safety • As a way to raise issues of fair treatment, social justice, and human rights • As a way to divert issues of legitimacy of regime • As a way to divert issues of organized labor force

  11. OSH Demands • Lack of OSH Demands: Pakistan, India(?) • Physicians as “Entrepreneur-like” Activist • Manipulation of OSH Demands: Philippines, Indonesia(?) • Physicians as “Impartial” Gatekeeper • Suppression of OSH Demands: China, Vietnam(?) • Physicians as “Innovative” Professionals

  12. OSH Demands & Workers’ Interest • How to generate workers’ interests in OSH • Right to Know • How to represent workers’ interest in OSH • Right to Choose • How to assemble workers’ interest in OSH • Right to Participate

  13. Measurement and Management • Formal Sectors • Organized • Measured • Managed • (Prevention) • Informal Sectors • Unorganized • Listening • Claimed • (Compensation) Not measured, not managed in formal sectors. However, in informal sectors, no need to be managed, no need to be measured. Need to be managed -> Measured -> Managed

  14. Prevention or Compensation • Prevention becomes first, only when compensation is inevitable. • Without proper compensation, there is no prevention.

  15. Training of Physicians • Lessons on the importance of OSH Demands by workers, and tools for generating, representing and assembling these demands • Lessons on how OSH Demands can contribute to or divert from the solution of OSH problems • Lessons on the stages of social development and appropriate combination of compensation and prevention • Lessons on how to tackle informal sectors and ways to organize and work with various activist groups

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